Alright! Luckily this didn't take as long, but dang i'm kinda disapointed that i didn't get any OC's…. So I guess that only my character's are gonna appear in this story…. I guess that's ok in the long run, I probably didn't want to get swamped with writing so many different characters… so yay.. I guess? And unfortunately I don't think I'll be doing the Anime Intro's just yet, maybe when the first few chapters are written.. Anyway lets get this show on the road, I do not own PSO2 or RWBY, they are owned by Sega and Rooster teeth respectively. Alright operatives, move out!


ARKS Ship Ansur, A.P. 238/2/20 9:45 AM, Gate Area


Ruby walks alongside eleven other trainee's in two rows, she is also joined by Alex and Morgan while Zach was placed into another group of trainee's. Leading the group is a ARKS Ranger captain, who will be leading this last training mission before they become operatives, "Alright Trainees, listen up, the other groups are waiting for us so I'll make this quick. This op is a simple patrol mission, we get down there, walk around a for a bit, killing any hostile wildlife we come across and get back. I don't want to see any unnecessary heroics out there understood?" The captain asks the trainees in his gruff voice, "Sir, yes sir!" All of the trainees yell out while putting their right hands over where their heart is, including Ruby, this is the ARKS salute.

The captain turns and faces the ramp down to the ships that will take them to Naverius, "Move out!" He yells and jogs down the ramp, followed closely by Ruby and her fellow trainee's. It's a light jog as the group heads towards the Gateway deployment ships, small ships with a FLT portal drive that is meant to service ARKS Operatives from the Oracle Fleet to the planets they would deploy to. As they reach the ship that will take them to Naverius, it is only a moment of waiting as in a bright flash the group finds themselves in the deployment area of the Gateway ship, "Alright, you know the drill, to the troop compartment, on the double!" The captain yells out, the trainees quickly salute before walking into the troop compartment, Ruby alongside the Human, Deuman, and Newman trainees take a seat as the CAST trainees stand near the door, holding on to the hand bars.

It's not long before they feel a small jolt rocks the Gateway Ship, as outside the Ansur the hangar's extend outward, and the hangar doors above the Gateway ships open up, allowing the four Ships loaded with trainees to lift off.

Inside the ship Ruby looks around at her fellow trainees, many of who are keeping to themselves or are talking to their close friends, she briefly catches the attention of Alex, sitting a distance away from her, who gives her a thumbs up. "You good, partner?" a male voice with an accent(*1) to the right of her asks, she turns to see a blonde newman looking at her, "Yea, I'm good," Ruby says to him.

"Sorry I called you partner out of the blue, its just we're in this together, right?" the Newman says, looking at her with a smile, "Yea, you're right," Ruby smiles back. "The name's Afin," the Newman, now identified as Afin, introduces himself with his hand out, "I'm Ruby," Ruby introduces herself, shaking Afins hand. "Oh yeah, you're that person from another dimension right?" Afin asks with wide eyes, to which Ruby nods.

"Woah mate, that's so awesome, it must have been weird once you got here, huh?" Afin asks, "It was at first, but I've gotten used to it in the past two years," Ruby says. The ship suddenly rocks, "I guess we hit the telepool, we'll be at Naverius soon," a trainee says. "You know I never asked why we're going to Naverius," Afin says, "Are you serious? Naverius is one of the safer planets that you can patrol, not to mention due to the Falspawn gone, there's not as much F-factor(*2) there," the trainee across from Ruby says.

"The Falspawn are not fully gone just yet, or else the F-factor wouldn't still be around and there wouldn't be a need for us," Alex says looking at the trainee, "You seriously think they're still around? They haven't been seen in years dude," The trainee tells Alex, "Yea, but that doesn't mean that they'll won't return, and personally I want to be ready for when they do, I don't want to be caught off guard," Alex says with a serious tone. "He's right, we may never know when the falspawn may return, so all of us must be ready for that day," The captain says, agreeing with Alex, who smiles seeing the veteran operative agree with him.

All of a sudden the lights in the compartment turn green, "We've arrived, to the deployment bay!" The captain yells out, "Sir, yes sir!" Ruby and the other trainees yell out, quickly filling out of the compartment and into the deployment bay. Once there they stand at attention in two rows. "Alright, you all know what to do, remember your training and you'll get through this, understood?" The captain asks, to which the Trainees salute him, "Yes sir!" Ruby and her fellow trainees yell out. The captain nods smiling, "Move out!" He orders before running and jumping into the Gateway ships Telepool, followed quickly by the other Trainees, Ruby waits for a moment alongside Afin, "You ready, mate?" Ruby takes a deep breath, before looking at Afin, "Yeah, lets go," She says before running and taking a big jump into the telepool followed closely by Afin.

The pool shoots up a crystal like liquid as soon as Ruby's boots touch it, the liquid quickly covers her body, once it fully covers her she disappears from the Ship, her vision turning black. Before it returns, she is falling towards the planet head first, covered in a blue photonic glow, making her look like a blue shooting star if one were on the ground. Ruby tilts her head up to see eleven other blue streaks in front of her, the other trainees as well as the captain, right behind her is Afin, falling with a blue photonic glow coming off of him as well. It's not that long before they approach the ground, Ruby quickly shifts her body, allowing her feet to be pointed at the ground first. Ruby's feet hits the ground, coming to a sudden stop, but no pain radiating through her body, due to the mixture of her photons and the Telepool it prevents any injury during the deployment.(*3)

Around her are the other trainees who are getting off of their knees after landing, as Afin lands behind her, but he doesn't stick the landing as well as Ruby and the others, as he loses his footing and falls flat on his butt, resulting in a few operatives laughing at him. "Good grief, You're not going to last long in ARKS if that happens often, Trainee," The captain says, "Sorry sir!" Afin apologizes, as Ruby gives him her hand, helping him up, "Thanks Partner," Afin says with a smile, "Of course, after all we're in this together after all," Ruby says, smiling back. "Alright, enough chit chat, lets move," The captain says, as he summons his rifle and starts to walk away, followed closely by the trainees.


Naverius A.P. 238/2/20 11:39 AM


The patrol so far was pretty uneventful, from the occasional pack of grulf attacking them, as well as any F-factor corrupted wildlife, but besides that nothing really has happened yet. "Alright, there is a small clearing up ahead, we'll take a small break there, understood?" The captain tells the trainees, "Yes sir!" Ruby yells out for the group. Once the group reaches the clearing, they take a small break, many talking amongst each other, Alex and Morgan walk over to Ruby and Afin, "Hey Ruby, how does it feel to be back on Naverius after two years?" Morgan asks, "It feel's weird if I'm being honest, when i first appeared here I was lost, just found myself here. Now I return here two years as a operative of ARKS…" Ruby says to Morgan, "Understandable, after all-" Alex starts to say when all of a sudden an Alarm goes off in Ruby's radio, and her HUD starts flashing red. Judging by the other's facial expressions, she's not the only one, "Emergency message from Control to all ARKS Operatives! Dangerous photon levels has been detected on Naverius, a code F order has been issued for the planet. I repeat a code F order has been issued for the planet Naverius. We are detecting spatial corruption across the planet." An ARKS control Officer quickly says, "Trainees! Close ranks! NOW!" The Captain yells out.

All the trainee's rush towards the captain, all of them summoning their weapons as they do, before forming up with veteran captain. All of the trainees blood turns cold, code F, the code that is to be used when the falspawn returned. "Contact left!" a dueman trainee calls out, holding her training rod, as multiple blood red sphere's appear from nowhere, once the spheres disappear there are new insectoid like four legged creature's. Dagan's, according to ARKS these are the most common Falspawn, but pretty deadly no matter what. "Contact right!" ablonde female CAST Calls out, rasing her Gunblade, as more Dagan's warp in, quickly surrounding them. "Falspawn presence confirmed, they're exceeding the acceptable limit. All Trainee's are to evacuate immediately, all Operatives are to neutralize the Falspawn on sight, this is a top priority order!" The ARKS Control Officer quickly says.

"Understood… Trainees, listen up, we are to break through and head south from here, once we've lost these bastards, you'll be teleported back to the ship that will return you to oracle, understood?" The captain says, "Yes sir!" Alex yells out for the group, however, most of the other Trainees have looks of fear, they never expected this to happen on their first mission. The dagans charge at the group, who bring up their weapons, no one could expect what happnes next. As the Dagans descends on to the group it descends into chaos, the group splits, as Ruby cuts down one, two more takes it place, at the moment though the group of trainees feel invincible.

Suddenly a cry rings out, Ruby turns to see a trainee getting stabbed in the chest by the Falspawns claws before he falls to the ground, dead. It's not long before another is killed, then another, another, and another, "Dammit! We need to get out of here now!" Alex yells out, ducking under a swipe from a dagan, then immediately cutting down one of the falspawn, "But how? There's too many of-" Afin says firing his Rifle before barely dogding a dagan causing him to fall on his butt, before a decapitaed head of recently killed trainee lands next to him, causing him to flinch at the sight of it. Before any Falspawn could kill him Ruby quickly jumps in front of him, cutting down any Dagans around him, then helping him to his feet.

The Captain, seeing the amount of casualties grunts before firing a gernade from his under barrel launcher to the south, causing a huge explosion, and making a huge gap within the assault, "There's your opening! Go!" He yells out before taking out three Dagans trying to kill him. "What about you sir?" Morgan asks, countering a strike, then striking down the Dagan by stabbing its underbelly core with her twin daggers, "I'll buy you time, now go! That's a order!" The Captain orders the recruits, who briefly look at each other before nodding, "Understood sir!" Ruby says, as once the other Trainees force the Falspawn off of them before running off, though not all of them manage to get away as one more trainee is killed as he gets stabbed in the back of the leg preventing him to run, he cries out in pain as the Falspawn finish him off.

Ruby leads the group of the five remaining trainees away from the clearing and into the forest, judging by her radar only a few Falspawn are following them. The sound of thunder catches her attention as the sound of thunder catches her attention, looking to the left there are some heavy rain clouds moving in, "Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?" Ruby calls out, "I think we all are Ruby!" Alex calls back as he vaults over exposed roots of a tree. Ruby turns towards the rain clouds, followed closely by the others.


A.P. 238/2/20 12:17 PM


It's been almost half an hour since the Falspawn ambush, and at the moment the survivors are huddled up in a cave as the rain comes down heavily, the Trainees barely managed to lose the Falspawn as they ran into the heavy rain. "Ok… so… I think we all need a moment after what just happened," Alex says catching his breath, looking at the surviving trainees alongside him. Ruby looks around, besides her, Afin, Alex, and Morgan there is only one other among them, a female blonde CAST with fair synthetic skin, blue eyes, and black body parts with medium electric blue accents, a gunblade resting next to her as she looks out the cave enterance. "Yeah..I think so too," Morgan agrees with her brother, "still, I didn't expect that to happen," she says looking at Alex. "I don't think any of us could, but.." Ruby says though she pauses, the amount of death that just happened. A small amount of time passes with no one saying a word, a moment of silence for their fallen comrades.

"... I don't think we've ever got your name," Afin ask the CAST, "Oh, I'm sorry, I guess I should introduce myself, didn't get the chance to before…." She pauses, looking away for a moment, "Anyway, I'm Emily, Ranger Class." "Nice to meet ya, the name's Afin, Ranger Class as well," Afin introduces himself, "Alex Amiti, Hunter Class," "I'm Morgan Amiti, Fighter Class," the Amiti twins introduce themselves, "I'm Ruby Rose, Hunter class." Ruby tells Emily, "Nice to meet all of you," Emily say's with a smile.

"So…I guess one of us has to contact command, let them know that we're stuck down here for the moment," Afin says looking at Ruby. "I'll do it, you guys rest for the moment," Alex says, starting to walk to the cave entrance, bringing up his terminal to contact ARKS Command. Ruby sits against the cave wall, briefly closing her eyes, thinking of Remnant.

It's not long before Alex gets off the radio, his terminal disappearing as he walks back from the cave entrance, "Alright good news and bad news, the good news is that the other groups managed to evacuate in time, all of them are alright." The news that the other trainees are alright brings hope to the surviving group, "Bad news is that due to the falspawn, there is too much interference to extract us right now, as such we'll have to head out and get clear of here, luckly there is a landmark that is just outside the interference four point five kilometers from here," "What is it?" Morgan asks, "A giant tree, like a very giant one." Alex answers, which catches Ruby's attention, was she near the location that brought her here two years ago?

"So, I guess we should move out huh?" Afin says, getting up and grab his rifle, alongside Emily who attaches her gunblade on her back. "I guess, though personally I-" Ruby starts to say, when suddenly a low growl is heard behind, and on their radars a small group of hostiles appear behind them as well. The group turns around and from the darkness a small pack of Grulf's appear, but the alpha appears, a Fang Banshee, but something catches Ruby's attention, a scar near its left eye, likely from a sword attack, and a patch of skin that seems to have healed a gunshot wound, it's the same Fang Banshee that had attacked her two years earlier.

"So… Run?" Morgan asks the group who are slowly backing away from the wolves, "I don't see any other option… so, yes I think so," Emily says, as the other nod, "Ok then… Go!" Ruby quickly yells out as the group turns around and runs out the cave back into the storm, the Grulf's and Fang Banshee quickly follow after them.

As the group of five run from the wolf like beasts who run after them, hot on their tail. As they run they look for a way to lose the beast when suddenly red orbs appear, multiple Dagans warping in, as well as another Insectoid Falspawn, a flying one known as El Arda. "Well this is just great!" Alex yells out, as the Falspawn now give chase as well, "What now?" Afin asks, "We may have to fight," Emily tells the rest of the group, "If we do, it's likely we'll be killed," Morgan says looking behind her at the advancing wildlife and dark beasts.

Ruby quickly jumps into the air, twisting in midair as she does so until she lands facing the approaching horde, drawing Crescent Rose as she does so. Seeing Ruby stopping cause the others to stop and turn as well, "So we're doing this huh?" Alex says, pulling his sword off his back. "Looks like it," Morgan says flipping her twin daggers, while Afin and Emily flip the safeties off of their firearms before taking aim at the incoming enemies.

It doesn't take long until the group of Falspawn attacks the remaining trainee's, but they aren't the only one battling, as the Grulf's and the Fang Banshee are battling the Falspawn as well, trying to destory the other invaders of their territory. The battle is fierce and chaotic, the trainee's are lucky that some of the Falspawn are focusing on the wildlife instead of them, allowing them some much needed breathing room.

Ruby quickly dodges a stab by a Dagan before quickly stabbing her scythe into the core of the dark beast, she then cuts down a Grulf who leaps at her, trying to sink its claws and fangs into her. The sound of insect wings reaches her, she looks up to see the El Arda fling towards her quickly, she barely has enough time to uses her semblance to dodge the beast. Ruby quickly shifts Crescent Rose into it's sniper configuration, and loads a fresh magazine into the magazine well before opening fire on the flying Falspawn, unaware that the Fang Banshee has now set its sight on her.

Ruby continues firing at the El Arda before it disappears from sight, hiding behind the treeline. "Ruby, look out!" she hears Morgan call out before turning to see the Fang Banshee charging at her. Ruby tries to bring up Crescent Rose in time, but its too late as the Fang Banshee immediately brings up its claws, forcing Ruby to bring up her Aura. Just before the claws come down on Ruby, Morgan jumps in front of her, using her twin daggers to block the claws.

Morgan pushes the Fang Banshee off of her and counter attacks, making a flurry of cuts on the legs of the Fang Banshee, before dodging a bite from the beast. A Dagan jumps in trying to cut down the trainee, only for Alex to grab the dark beast by the leg and throwing it over him and slamming it into the ground in front of him, before swinging his sword in a wide arc cutting down two more. Ruby, now gets up and shifts Crescent Rose into its Scythe configuration and making a huge gash on the side of the wolf like beast, causing it to howl in pain.

The beast lashes out, swinging its claws randomly, Ruby ducks and dodges before jumping away from the attacks. However Morgan is not as lucky, as she tries to get clear of the flurry of swipes she is struck near her right arm, yelling out in pain as she falls to the ground. "Morgan!" Alex yells out, briefly dropping his guard to look at his wounded sister, a mistake that would've been fatal if Emily wasn't standing alongside him, who blocks a Dagan from attacking him. Afin opens fire on the Fang, forcing the beast back under the hail of gunfire, and weakening the beast even further, to which Ruby uses to her advantage. Ruby disappears in a flurry of rose petals, the flurry of petals reappear over the Fang Banshee and reforms into Ruby, who quickly bring her scythe around the neck of the wolf creature, and with a squeeze of the trigger of the hybrid weapon mixed with the photonic blade, Ruby cleanly cuts off the head of the Fang Banshee, killing the beast.

Once she lands, she immediately rushes to Mogan's side, "Are you ok?" Ruby asks frantically, looking at Morgan, who is sitting up. "Yeah…Yeah I'm ok," Morgan says through heavy breaths, when suddenly a purple glow surrounds her, which catches Ruby off guard, and to her surprise the wound that Morgan had received starts to close up, as if nothing ever happened. "You have Aura…" Ruby says in disbelief, to which Morgan looks at her confused "What?" Morgan asks.

The sound of more gunfire draws their attention away from each other as Afin and Emily open fire on the remaining Falspawn approaching their position, due to the Grulf's retreating after the death of the Alpha. Alex cuts down yet another Dagan, before facing the two, "Not the time you two, come on, we're almost through this," He says as he helps up his sister and nodding to Ruby, who nods back.

Morgan picks up her daggers and charges at the Falspawn alongside her brother and Ruby as Afin and Emily stand back, engaging the Falspawn from a distance. The battle doesn't take long as the group of trainee's are getting used to the attack the Dagan do, when suddenly the sound of insect wings appear, and Afin yells out in surprise, causing Ruby to look back. She see's Afin being lifted into the air by the El Arda. "Afin!" Ruby Calls out, she quickly takes aim to destroy the Falspawn, only to have to duck from a swipe from a Dagan.

The El Arda continues to rise into the air with Afin, when suddenly a gunshot rings out, and the flying Falspawn dissipates, causing Afin to fall to the ground. He lands hard, making making a small yell of pain as he lands on his butt again. Ruby turns to see where the gunshot came from only to see two operatives charging towards their position, a human male wearing red armor with purple lights on the right side of his body holding a Gunblade in his hand, while a newman wearing red dress with blue light across it holding a Rod her hands.

As the two Operatives join in the battle is quickly turned against the Falspawn, as the Male quickly cuts down any that gets close while the female supports them, healing any small injuries and cast down thunder arts on any stragglers that remain, as the battle finishes the rain lets up. "Whew, that was quite the battle, You all alright?" the man says, looking at the group while making his Gunblade disappear, "Yeah, we're ok, thanks for helping us," Ruby says, making Crescent Rose disappear into her inventory. "No problem, looking after the new blood is what us veterans should do," The man says as two green and white drink pouch materializes in hands, he hands one to Ruby and hands the other to Afin, while his companion hands more to Alex, Morgan, and Emily.

Ruby immediately recognizes what she has been handed, a Monomate(*4), a drink that can heal small wounds and reenergizes any ARKS who drink it. She twists the built in straw before pulling it outwards, extending it out, once it's fully extended she brings it to her lips, allowing the medicinal drink to enter her body.

"Guess we should introduce ourselves, huh? My name is Zeno, last batch of the Gen two ARKS operative, Hunter/Ranger Class(*5), and this is my partner," the man, now known as Zeno says before looking at his female partner, "I'm Echo, Force/Techer Class. Sorry that we had to meet here, after everything that happened," Echo introduces herself.

"Nice to meet you, Ruby Rose, Hunter Class." Ruby introduces herself, "Alex Amiti, Hunter Class as well," "Morgan Amiti, Fighter Class," the twins introduce themselves, "Emily, Ranger," "The name's Afin, Ranger Class," Both the CAST and Newman tell the two Operative's. "Nice to meet all of you, I guess you all are heading to evac back to Oracle?" Zeno guesses, to which the trainees nod. "Yeah, our evac point is close, judging by the waypoint that I set, its about two kilometers north from here," Alex says, "Well then, lets get going," Zeno says starting to walk north.

"Wait, are you coming with us?" Afin asks as he watches Zeno walking away, "Of course, there is still some more Falspawn out there, as well as the wildlife, We'll make sure that you get back home safe and sound," Zeno says, before turning around and giving the trainees a smile, The trainees nods as they put away the Monomates they have been handed, they quickly follow the two Operatives towards the evacuation point.

The walk towards the evac point is uneventful, no Falspawn or wildlife attacked them on the way there, just the conversation of the group fill the air. Once they reach to roots of giant tree the conversation stops, "Dang this is one big tree, how far do you think the branches are" Morgan says, looking towards the top of the tree. "I'm not really sure, I guess when we patrol around here we can take some scans when we're fully Operatives," Alex says looking up as well, "Well, the Gateway Ship should be here soon so-" Alex continues before a bright bluish orb appears both above and in front of them, catching their attention.

Ruby looks on in shock, the orb is in the exact same spot when she appeared, is someone else from another dimension coming here as well? But this one seems off to her, as when she appeared, space-time literally tore open to allow her into this Dimension, this doesn't even look like that. All of a sudden, a figure falls from the orb which fades away, a human female from what it looks like.

However she falls fast, and seems to be unconscious. Zeno eyes quickly shrunken as he see's the girl fall, "Quick, someone catch her!" he orders. It doesn't take long for Ruby to spring into action, using her semblance to quickly race below the falling girl and catches her before she hits the root pierced rock, once she has caught the girl she comes to a sliding stop. Ruby sets the girl down on the ground gently as the other rush to their side, "Do any of you know first-aid?" Echo asks as she kneels down to check on the girl, "I do ma'am, took basic medical during training," Alex says as he kneels down on the other side of the fallen girl and begins to assist Echo, following her commands on what to do.

The fallen girl has snow white hair, in the style of twin ponytails and wearing two headpieces on each side of her head, her outfit is primarily white with red accents(*6). "She looks fine, and her vitals are stable. I'm gonna contact Command for a medivac, if that's alright with you ma'am," Alex say's looking up towards Echo, who nods in agreement. Alex gets up and brings up his terminal while walking a small distance away, contacting ARKS command.

Ruby gets down close the girl, placing a hand on the girls shoulder, when suddenly the girls eye's squint open, two red eyes are barely seen as the girl looks at Ruby, who stares back at the girl. "...Ru…by?" the girl barely gets out before her eyes shut again, as she falls unconscious. This briefly stuns Ruby, did this girl know her somehow? During this moment, while the group is unaware, there is a black and red portal starting to form where the other portal was.

A noise catches Ruby's attention, she quickly looks up to see the Falspawn portal forming, "Above us!" She calls out, drawing the others attention, causing them to summon their weapons. A figure falls fast from the portal, but it is not a Falspawn, but a person. Unlike the girl however, this one is awake and has a sword in their hands, raised and ready to strike where Ruby is standing. Thinking fast, Ruby grabs the fallen girl and activates her semblance, disappearing with the girl right before the blade of the sword hits the ground which causes debris and small chunks of rock to go everywhere. Ruby and the girl reappear a small distance away, and summons Crescent Rose from her inventory, deploying it in its scythe form.

As the dust settles down the attacker is revealed, their hair is blackish/dark purple with glowing violet ends, their face is obscured behind a black and grey mask that also has a glowing purple visor. The outfit they're wearing is quite strange, looking metallic, yet fluttering in the dying wind, near the neck appears to be a tie that is glowing like the masks visor with a hexagonal pattern. In its gloved clawed hands, is a sword that has a purple glow along the projected blade and over the hand guard(*7), the blade also appeared to have had red lettering once, the word however has been scratched out.

The assailant gets off their knee's, letting their left hand hold the blade. They look around before looking towards where Ruby and the girl is and almost begin's walking towards them before a bullet nearly hits them, the masked person looks towards who almost shot them, Zeno's gunblade is smoking, showing that he was the one who shot, standing beside him are others, who has their weapons out at the ready. "Well, didn't expect this, alright… You, name and affiliation, now!" Zeno orders the masked individual, still aiming at them.

The masked person just stares at Zeno for a brief moment before resuming their walk towards Ruby and the unconscious girl, "Move aside," they say to Ruby, their voice distorted making hard to determine a gender, "That girl must not be allowed to live," they say while raising their sword. Ruby stands her ground however, "I don't think so," Ruby says to the masked person, keeping Crescent Rose up. "Besides, you haven't made the best first impression," Alex says as he and Morgan starts to circle around to assist Ruby.

"Very well… then I shall move you myself," the masked person says, then immediately jumps into the air towards Ruby and raises their sword, as Ruby brings up her Scythe to block the attack. Once the attack lands, Ruby is actually forced to her knees due to the force behind the attack and the metal of Crescent Rose actually creaks under the stress of the attack. Seeing this Alex and Morgan rushes to assist Ruby, the person turns to see this and forces Ruby down before turning to the twins, Alex makes a overhead strike while Morgan goes for the right side, to which the masked person swing their sword towards Alex's sword, resulting that the trainee's sword to shatter from the strength of the swing, before blocking Morgan's strike with the armored gauntlet, the masked person then kicks them both away, the kick causing Morgan's aura to flare up.

Afin, Zeno, and Emily open fire with their firearms, but it is easily blocked by the masked assailant, who then charges at the Operative and trainees. Emily and Zeno which their gunblades to sword mode and charge at the assailant, Zeno and Emily swipe at the masked person, who quickly deflect both attacks before backhanding Emily away. Zeno barely has time to dodge but then he counters attack, to which the individual brings up their sword fast to block the counter attack and then with their free hand the punch Zeno in the gut, before kicking him away.

Afin and Echo just point their weapons at the masked person, but they don't attack, to which the masked person just stares at them for a moment before walking back to where Ruby and the fallen girl is. Ruby, now back on her feet, once again raises her Scythe, the masked person simply sighs and in a wide horizontal arc of their sword knocks Ruby to the side, who raises her Aura, and as she lands she sees her Aura meter fall from eighty precent to ten precent.

Now with nothing to stop them the masked person stands over top of the unconscious girl, they raises their sword to cut down the girl when suddenly they get punched in the face, hard. The masked person is sent flying into the tree, Ruby looks to see who stopped the masked person, to find a pale bluehaired man with an X scar on his face alongside a tattoo, wearing a blue overcoat with a black undersuit and orange lights, in his hands are two gauntlets, close behind him is a blueish-green haired Newman female, her hair barely covers her eyes, she wears a dark purple outfit with white accents and pink lights through out the outfit.

"Well I'll be damned, the one time I actually decide to go on a mission, I run face-first into a good time. Hey Seana, look up this asshole for me, would ya?" He asks the girl behind him with a very gruff voice, raising his first. "Yes, Master Gettemhult," says this Seana girl behind him in a emotionless voice, as she pulls up her terminal, after a small bit of searching her terminal disappears. "Um…Master Gettemhult, I can't find anything on that one," She says in a surprised tone, looking towards the masked person, who is now getting up from the punch from Gettemhult, "Huh?" Gettemhult says, looking back at Seana. "Tsk," The masked person lets out, before disappearing in a black and red Falspawn portal.

"Dammit, they got away," Gettemhult says in disappointment, before looking towards the other group, who are now getting up from the one sided battle, when he lays his eyes on Zeno, who he glare's at. "Come on Seana, we're leaving, hopefully one of these Falspawn bastards gives me a nice fight," Gettemhult says as he walks away, "Yes Master Gettemhult," Seana says following closely behind Gettemhult.

Zeno simply sighs as he watches the Operatives walk away, "Thats Gettemhult for you.." Zeno says before looking towards the Trainee's, "Everyone ok?" he asks, "I'm good, My sword is totaled however," Alex says as he holds up what remains of his sword. "I'm ok, but that attack took out most of my Aura…" Ruby says as she walks up to Zeno, holding the side that the sword hit, stinging badly. "Aura? Nevermind, is the girl ok?" Zeno asks, to which Morgan runs over to check on her. "She's unharmed!" Morgan calls out, picking the girl up and walks over to the group.

"Good, Alex right? I'll buy you a new one when we get back to the fleet," Zeno says, happy that everyone got out alright in the end, while Echo starts to tend to the minor wounds obtained during the recent battle. It's not long until a Gateway ship manages to reach their location, allowing them teleport up to the ship, and once they're aboard, turns around and starts it's journey back to the fleet.


Oracle Fleet, ARKS Ship Ansur, Hospital, A.P. 238/2/20 3:18 PM


Once Ruby and the others made it back to the fleet, they were greeted with warm welcome by many veterans, congratulating them on surviving a Falspawn attack, and them being graduated to full fledge Operatives. Once the veterans all split up, Zach met up with them, happy that his friends survived. They also brought the girl to the Hospital, to which Ruby decided to come with to check on her while the other split up, Alex heading with Zeno and Echo to get a him new sword, Zach, Morgan and the others heading to the Cafe after what has happened.

Ruby watches from the hospital window as medical staff hook up an IV and a heart monitor to the unconscious girl, "She'll be fine," The ARKS Nurse Officer Filia says to Ruby, "She's in the best hands," "I know, I just…want to make sure that she's alright," Ruby says looking towards Filia for a brief moment, before returning her gaze towards the unconscious girl. "I understand, should you need anything let me know, I'll be taking care of her from this moment on," Filia says, "Thank you," Ruby thanks her as Filia walks away.

Its not long before Ruby feels a presence that she last felt two years ago walks up to the left her, "To think that she would return after all this time," Ruby looks to the left of her and see's the same woman who helped her during the photonic infusion two years ago. Now looking at her closer up Ruby can now see all her features, The womans eyes are a shining silver just like hers, the skin below her neck however doesn't look human like however, it looks more like a mix of water with dozens of Twinkling stars mixed in, it also shows at her hands and her legs, the name on the badge that she's wearing says that her name is supposedly Clarissa.

"Do you know her?" Ruby asks the woman, who nods, "Her name is Matoi," The woman says identifying the unconscious girl, "I lost track of her during the incident ten years ago," she continues. The Falspawn attack on the Asnur ten years ago, thats when Matoi was lost? "That's quite a long time, how is she back after all this time?" Ruby asks, "I'm not sure…" The woman answers.

"Excuse me, Ma'am?" Ruby turns to see a doctor approaching her, "I would ask you to please keep all radio conversations to a minimum, our medical professionals need their focus," the doctor says, which confuses Ruby, but before Ruby could respond, "You are the only one who can see me, Ruby Rose," The woman tells her, which cause her eyes to widen, "Oh, sorry, I was just… Informing a friend of mine about a… mutual friend." Ruby quickly says, hiding the fact that there is a woman that only she can see.

The doctor nods before walking away, after he has left earshot conversation Ruby turns to the woman, "Who are you?" Ruby asks the mysterious woman, "You many call me Xion."


And that's all she wrote… at least for the moment, We've had an initiation mission, half of Ruby's group getting slaughtered by the Falspawn, finding out Morgan has Aura, meeting Zeno and Echo, saving a mysterious girl (Who we later learn to be Matoi), getting attacked by a masked assailant (I wonder who can that be..), meeting Gettemhult and Seana (Not her full name), and finally figuring out the mysterious woman's name, Xion. anyway I'll begin working on the next chapter as soon as I find the motivation for it, assuming I don't get sidelined by distractions, and finding out what the plot for the chapter is gonna be about, need to refresh my pso2 knowledge. Thank you again for reading 'The Remnant Operative', See you next time my fellow operatives!


(*1): Afin's Accent is Australian, and no we don't know his last name, in fact we don't know the last names of most characters in PSO2

(*2): F-Factors are basically corrupted Photons, ARKS Job is to basically purge this from the universe by purifying them

(*3): Watch the og PSO2 opening to see how this whole paragraph is basically done

(*4): Monomate's are not the only healing item, there are also Dimate which provide a medium heal, and Trimate's which provide a large heal.

(*5): Dual Classes come about once a Operative spends a certain amount of time as their initial class they are granted access to achieve a secondary class on the battlefield instead of changing their main class out right.

(*6): Look up PSO2 Matoi Episode 1 outfit, I've tried my best to explain it

(*7): This weapon is the Coated Edge D, look it up when you get the chance